@@MattPatterson1411 They're jinxed. Planted 7, my brother in law had a heart attack. I went to take care of him during the time they needed steady watering. The next year, I planted 7 more. When they needed water most, he died on a camping trip in New Mexico. The next year, I planted 7 more. Same time of year, my daughter had an emergency liver transplant and we kept her 3 year old while she recovered. I can take a hint.
My chestnuts are dead or dying from all this rain. They turned brown and all the leaves fell off. Last year was the complete opposite with no rain. Storm came through last week and broke off a very big apple tree 3’ off the ground, broke my 9’ pawpaw at the ground line, broke my Fuju persimmon in half and 3 old peach trees. Broke a lot of limbs in my pecans and blew a huge willow tree over on my neighbors property. The ground was solid white with hail. That destroyed my garden and 16 varieties of figs with their big leaves. I’d rather have this flooding than no rain if I had to choose between the 2. My well water looks like tea. Does that every time we get floods. I drink it and survive.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 I’m not far from Red River. I’m within a half mile of being in Cooke county. I’m giving up on pawpaws. They don’t like our heat and drought and wind breaks them too easily with their dense canopy and huge leaves.
@@jamesbarron1202 I just discovered, on the way to my place, a neighbor has a couple of big mature persimmons right on the county road so I can get all I want. I'll be spitting seeds from now on. Let the law of averages do the work.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 I’ve got wild persimmons everywhere. I don’t even like to eat those. I like the big Japanese persimmons. Especially the non astringent types like Fuju. You can eat those when they’re still firm as an apple. They do get sweeter when they get soft though. No seeds either.
I would probably pull off the female flowers or the burs when they form. When trees are still pretty young I try to pick off any nut/fruit starting to from so that the tree just focuses water and nutrients on increasing growth instead of production. This may not be the right thing to do or a good thing to do but to me it makes sense and it has never caused me any problems.
You don't want my advice.
I'm 21 and 0 for chestnuts.
I've decided my place has more trees than I need already.
Awe man don’t give up. What happened to them? Drought?
@@MattPatterson1411 They're jinxed. Planted 7, my brother in law had a heart attack. I went to take care of him during the time they needed steady watering. The next year, I planted 7 more. When they needed water most, he died on a camping trip in New Mexico. The next year, I planted 7 more. Same time of year, my daughter had an emergency liver transplant and we kept her 3 year old while she recovered.
I can take a hint.
My chestnuts are dead or dying from all this rain. They turned brown and all the leaves fell off. Last year was the complete opposite with no rain. Storm came through last week and broke off a very big apple tree 3’ off the ground, broke my 9’ pawpaw at the ground line, broke my Fuju persimmon in half and 3 old peach trees. Broke a lot of limbs in my pecans and blew a huge willow tree over on my neighbors property. The ground was solid white with hail. That destroyed my garden and 16 varieties of figs with their big leaves. I’d rather have this flooding than no rain if I had to choose between the 2. My well water looks like tea. Does that every time we get floods. I drink it and survive.
Yeah, I'm through with chestnuts on my Red River place.
It's always something.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 I’m not far from Red River. I’m within a half mile of being in Cooke county. I’m giving up on pawpaws. They don’t like our heat and drought and wind breaks them too easily with their dense canopy and huge leaves.
@@jamesbarron1202 I just discovered, on the way to my place, a neighbor has a couple of big mature persimmons right on the county road so I can get all I want. I'll be spitting seeds from now on. Let the law of averages do the work.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 I’ve got wild persimmons everywhere. I don’t even like to eat those. I like the big Japanese persimmons. Especially the non astringent types like Fuju. You can eat those when they’re still firm as an apple. They do get sweeter when they get soft though. No seeds either.
I would probably pull off the female flowers or the burs when they form. When trees are still pretty young I try to pick off any nut/fruit starting to from so that the tree just focuses water and nutrients on increasing growth instead of production. This may not be the right thing to do or a good thing to do but to me it makes sense and it has never caused me any problems.
This is what I’m thinking as well. I appreciate the input.